The higher mysteries of thaumaturgy remain beyond our comprehension. I suspect even with Voidwatch’s full support, the fundamental nature of our existence is an immensity that will take eons to understand. I fever.
Reality is the interweaving of everything. Every expres...
2024-03-25 12:08:35 +0000 UTC View Post#include <NEURO-PSI.h>
#include <NETHERBREACHER.EXE.h>
#include <CHRONOWALL.h>
MARKING PSI-PARASITE AS: {THE BURNING DREAMER};
// Initiating Breach
// Main routine to combat {THE BURNING DREAMER}
void eradicate...
2024-03-23 19:08:20 +0000 UTC View PostAh, but hearts are blind, and our eyes are pregnant with lies.
We see what we will, and we will what we wish to see.
And for those who claimed to be undamned by faith, know that you are damned by thought.
For the shape of your desire forms your cag...
2024-03-21 12:11:24 +0000 UTC View Post“Veylis! No! Please! Do not do this! Do not–”
“I love you father, but I must cure you. I must cure your weakness, and through your ascension, may the rest be made worthy. There is no other end. There is no other end. There is no other end.”
-Jaus and Veylis...
2024-03-20 12:12:24 +0000 UTC View Post[Query]
Yes, Gatekeeper.
[Why do you wish to make the truth a weapon?]
Because I want things to matter. I want there to be a fundamental force for virtue, for righteousness, for honesty.
[And...
2024-03-19 12:02:02 +0000 UTC View PostOf course words can be weapons–how else do you think your father stayed my hand? Well, yes–the way he flails with his sword is amusing, and dare I even say endearing. But if you can seize comprehension of your foe, if you can master what they want, what they desire, who they think themsel...
2024-03-18 12:30:08 +0000 UTC View PostVeylis Avandaer: Samir. Don’t you ever want... more?
Samir Naeko: More? Well, what do you mean by "more"? More of what? More of “this”?
Veylis Avandaer: Hah. No, not right now. La...
2024-03-17 14:41:44 +0000 UTC View PostA raconteur from a bygone age once claimed that all the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. When my father first breathed this quote to me, it horrified me.
Merely players. Dancers on another stage.
Most fail to see the horror of the worl...
2024-03-15 18:28:44 +0000 UTC View PostSince Veylis Avandaer’s ascendance to the position of High Seraph of Highflame and her complete capture of the Broken Kosgan traditions, there have been 682 formal assemblies called.
Of the [682] formal assemblies called, [455] occurred during times of war.
The...
2024-03-14 11:29:16 +0000 UTC View Post24-6
Diplomatic Vulnerabilities (III)
The Paladins left the Elysium of Nuurhein with ten additional Bloodthanes arrested and a media frenzy rising in their wake. Observing Naeko through Kare’s eyes, Avo found himself glad of his prior achievement.
Revealing Zein and delivering...
2024-03-12 18:47:25 +0000 UTC View Post24-6
Diplomatic Vulnerabilities (II)
Naeko's complete arrival came with a sudden spike in metaphysical pressure.
It was as Zein had once said: once one rose beyond the Sixth Sphere, the potential operating with thaumaturgic subtlety changed from a question of difficulty to impos...
2024-03-11 12:16:51 +0000 UTC View Post+Every major war between the Guilds was preceded by a series of lesser catastrophes.
The betrayal–or ascension–of Jaus Avandaer.
The infiltration and siege on Scale and the Longeye Revolt of Stormtree.
The Massist-Voidwatch Coldtech-Embargo and...
2024-03-09 16:46:42 +0000 UTC View Post24-5
Battle of the Twin Flames (III)
A concentrated bombardment of agony consumed Chambers. These traumas that assailed him, they were tailor-made to break him specifically. Weapons made from the horrors of his past crashed against his wards like waves dashing themselves against a mou...
2024-03-07 11:59:08 +0000 UTC View Post24-5
Battle of the Twin Flames (II)
--[White-Rab]--
The memories Kare had of her mother were coming apart at the seams. The ghosts holding them together were shattering like glass shards turned missiles, primed to seek symmetrical sequences, each fragment breaki...
2024-03-06 12:31:42 +0000 UTC View Post“Tell me, little priest, for what do you still fight? Your kingdom has been sacked. Your faith has been defiled. Your masters have been banished. Your pantheons have been taken. Your future has been seized.
Now is the time for surrender. For death. So...
2024-03-05 11:57:40 +0000 UTC View Post24-4
Defilement (IV)
--[White-Rab]--
It took painfully long for Kare to accept the session request, but when she did, White-Rab immediately understood why.
Tapping into her cog-feed, the scene before her was carnage and chaos. Her Heaven was fully manifest...
2024-03-04 17:23:56 +0000 UTC View PostThere are two things that make me immediately kill a run before it starts.
The first is when I think the Middler’s full of shit and might be feeding us into a slaughterhouse.
The second is if the Necro we got isn’t performing.
24-4
Defilement (II)
The last strings of restraint within Avo broke as he manifested the full might of his Heavens. Damn his need for stealth. Damn the quiet game. He needed Emotion broken–nulled.
He needed to do it now.
Thousands of kilometers away, within a tower overl...
2024-02-29 18:24:15 +0000 UTC View Post+Seeker cadre Mirror-Convexes on standby.
Block successfully deployed. Target priority [Planeshift] registering as sole active ego.
Cadre classification [Vanguard] is moving in to make contact....
2024-02-28 18:24:41 +0000 UTC View Post+When you bite into the abyss, the abyss (sometimes) bites back.
Introducing the new half-boiled Razorfish Rolls just for 4099 Imps! They’re burned. They’re angry. And they might just gnaw your tongue off before you get them, but for the brave or the foolish that...
2024-02-27 17:02:38 +0000 UTC View Post23-3
The Strix and the Ravens (II)
Avo reviewed Denton’s mem-data as he waited for Kare to synchronize with his Metamind. A collage of moments passed through him; flashes of visual detail overlain with two sets of directives.
The first was addressed from Ori-Thaum’s Inner Co...
2024-02-26 14:52:48 +0000 UTC View Post+To all Mirror-Concaves and Convexes:
This is a confirmation that the Summer Contingency has been activated. You are free to assume pre-war footing and request the deployment of Heavens of Information for Threshold-III operations and above.
From reports delivered...
2024-02-23 19:13:22 +0000 UTC View Post23-2
That Which Lurks (III)
–[Draus]--
Every Guild warred differently.
Highflame’s cadres are the tip of their war hosts, punching through while golems, Regulars, and armor flood in to hold the land.
Ori-Thaum relies on Nether supremacy, high-con...
2024-02-22 17:02:35 +0000 UTC View Post{FRAGMENT LOCATED. LIQUIDATION PROCEEDING. SECURE THE PREMISES.}
-Omnitech Scout Group South-K333
23-2
That Which Lurks (II)
–[Draus]--
Draus examined the snakes she tore out along with her eyes and studied them using her Specter phantasmi...
2024-02-20 18:42:15 +0000 UTC View PostTo successfully breed a dragon, you need two groups— two populations: one to be placed in stasis as a party ignorant to the outer world, and the other to operate as their exposure.
This, more than anything, is the most reliable way to engender a zeitgeist.
To t...
2024-02-19 11:35:32 +0000 UTC View Post23-1
Borrowed Insight (III)
–[Dice]--
“I told you that you couldn't kill people anymore," Dice said, staring the Dogmother down.
She chastised the aged flat beside a pristine fountain. Behind her Ivory–Dice’s aunt–stood huddled with the rest of t...
2024-02-18 11:15:16 +0000 UTC View PostSometimes, the best soldier you can use against your enemies is one of their own.
-High Goddess Deis Aera, the Lady of Oaths and Vengeance
1
The Contract
As pillars of fire speared down through boiling clouds, a dying goddess limped down the crumbling halls of her...
2024-02-17 18:18:05 +0000 UTC View Post23-1
Borrowed Insight (II)
Fear. Confusion. Surprise. Suspicion. Recognition.
Such were the dominant emotions reigning in Cala Marlowe’s mind as she laid eyes on Avo, and as transparent splinter sank through her accretion, he too regarded himself vicariously through her insigh...
2024-02-15 19:37:49 +0000 UTC View Post+Hey, hey, consangs.
It's your girl, Cala Marlowe, coming at you this morning with a special episode of the Fateless Thoughtcast. Hope your minds are screwed back on after whatever the fuck just happened earlier because we got some news and tunes to get through.
...
2024-02-14 19:37:58 +0000 UTC View PostThough Tribulation Falls
“Who holds the sword?”
-Words Spoken by the Descender Willaim Wei before the Scouring of Jupiter
1
Reactivation
Attention all subjects! Attention all subjects!
A dimension merger is...
2024-02-14 05:20:16 +0000 UTC View Post